Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The bridge on the River Kwai [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a Sam Spiegel production ; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman ; produced by Sam Spiegel ; directed by David Lean.

Publisher, Date:

Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2000.

Description:

1 videodisc (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG.

Subjects:

Burma-Siam Railroad -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma -- Drama.

Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 -- Prisioneros y prisiones Japonés -- Teatro.

Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 -- Campañas -- Burma -- Teatro.

Feature films.

War films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Spiegel, Sam.

Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978.

Foreman, Carl.

Lean, David, 1908-1991.

Holden, William, 1918-1981.

Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.

Hawkins, Jack, 1910-1973.

Hayakawa, Sesshū, 1889-1973.

Donald, James, 1917-1993.

Sears, Ann, 1933-1992.

Horne, Geoffrey.

Boulle, Pierre, 1912-1994. Pont de la rivière Kwaï.

Columbia Pictures Corporation.

Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.

Based on Pont de la rivière Kwaï / Pierre Boulle.

"Columbia TriStar DVD."

Includes interactive and animated menus, scene seletions with motion, theatrical trailer, talent files.

Music, Malcolm Arnold ; cinematography, Jack Hildyard ; editing, Peter Taylor.

William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne.

DVD, widescreen (2.55:1) presentation.

English language ; Includes French, Spanish and Portuguese dubbed versions and subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai.

ISBN:

0767853547

9780767853545

Publisher Number:

05278

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

190352

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Bridge o

Medium:

[videorecording]